Sealed Championship Series

Az-cz · Joined: 18 Dec 2006 Posts: 56

I'm looking at running a competition to see who has the strongest sealed play over a variety of formats. Mostly it will be a test of the traditional block formats, but there will also be some other formats, such as Triple chronicles or Triple Alpha and what not. I will run 1 tournament each day in the evening in Japan, with some days missed due to my schedule. Each participant in each tournament will earn some number of points. The players who
have gathered the most points at the end of all of the tournaments will be the winner. I am planning on there being
prizes, but what exactly those will be are still being worked out with the heads of magic-league.

Here is a list of the tournaments I am looking at running. Please let me know if you have any suggestions or additions you'd like. This is just a list of the tournaments, with no set order as of yet.

Tournaments:

Ice Age - Alliances - Coldsnap
Arabian Nights - Antiquities - Legends
Invasion - Planeshift - Apocalypse
Champions - Betrayers - Saviors (Kamigawa)
Fallen Empires - The Dark - Homelands
Revised - Revised - Revised
Chronicles - Chronicles - Chronicles
Mirrodin - Darksteel - Fifth Dawn
Ravnica - Guildpact - Dissension
Shadowmoor - Eventide - Eventide
Tempest - Stronghold - Exodus
4th - 5th - 6th
Time Spiral - Planar Chaos - Future Sight
Odyssey - Torment - Judgment
Onslaught - Legions - Scourge
Lorwyn - Morningtide-Morningtide
Mercadian Masques - Nemesis - Prophecy
7th - 8th - 9th
Portal 3K - Portal1 - Portal2
Mirage - Visions - Weatherlight
Starter 1999 - Starter 2000 - Starter 2000
Alpha - Alpha - Alpha
10th - Promo - Promo
Alara-Alara-Alara

Here is the scoring system I looking at using. Please let me know what you think of it:

6 points per win
4 x # of players points for 1st place
2 x # of players points for 2nd place
1 x # of players points for Semifinals

At this point I would like to start the competition on Monday January 19th. Please provide suggestions and comments, and hopefully we'll be able to have a good sealed competition.

Az-cz · Joined: 18 Dec 2006 Posts: 56

Note:

Portal and Chronicles don't work so those sets are being removed from the competition.

Hayase · Joined: 18 Sep 2008 Posts: 2

what's the time difference between you and the states s we can get a general understanding of when these would be fired.

Az-cz · Joined: 18 Dec 2006 Posts: 56

I'm in Japan, which is right now 14 hours ahead of New York and 17 hours ahead of Los Angeles. So they'd be early morning-morning in the states, and afternoon-evening in Europe.

Az-cz · Joined: 18 Dec 2006 Posts: 56

Here's a redone list of possible formats:

Alpha - Alpha - Alpha
Time Spiral - Arabian Nights - Arabian Nights
Mirrodin - Antiquities - Antiquities
Champions of Kamigawa - Legends - Legends
Lorwyn - Fallen Empires - Fallen Empires
10th - The Dark - Homelands
Revised - Revised - Revised
Ice Age - Alliances - Coldsnap
4th - 5th - 6th
Mirage - Visions - Weatherlight
Tempest - Stronghold - Exodus
Urza's Saga - Urza's Legacy - Urza's Destiny
Mercadian Masques - Nemesis - Prophecy
Invasion - Planeshift - Apocalypse
Odyssey - Torment - Judgment
Onslaught - Legions - Scourge
Mirrodin - Darksteel - Fifth Dawn
Champions - Betrayers - Saviors (Kamigawa)
Ravnica - Guildpact - Dissension
Time Spiral - Planar Chaos - Future Sight
Lorwyn - Morningtide-Morningtide
Shadowmoor - Eventide - Eventide
7th - 8th - 9th
Portal 3K - Portal1 - Portal2
Starter 1999 - Starter 2000 - Starter 2000
Alara-Alara-Alara (Maybe Alara-Conflux-Conflux)

Note that the sets as well as everything else are tenative and up for discussion.

Blancoke · Joined: 06 Aug 2006 Posts: 12

Lorwyn - Lorwyn - Morningtide
Shards - Shards - conflux
Shadowmoor - Shadowmoor - Eventide

This is more logical then the x-y-y drafts.
Remember the CS CS CS drafts Sad

. Multiple boosters from 1 small expansion is not fun to play with

blancoke

LordLink · Joined: 11 Oct 2007 Posts: 73

yes! Japan is right on Australia's time zone. Finally some Australian tourneys at decent hours.

Az-cz · Joined: 18 Dec 2006 Posts: 56

Blancoke,

These are sealed tournaments, not drafts. Sealed usually uses Big-small-small pattern, unlike drafts.

Blancoke · Joined: 06 Aug 2006 Posts: 12

Oops
sorry mate you're right
My mistake

GJ by organizing this Wink

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Soto2 · Joined: 22 Feb 2007 Posts: 10

What about a mega block sealed?

Lorwyn - Morningtide- Shadowmoor - Eventide

lets see how race,class an color interact Smile

Az-cz · Joined: 18 Dec 2006 Posts: 56

Alas, with the way the site is set up, such a sealed isn't possible.

Aion · Joined: 20 Jul 2008 Posts: 43

Can you post a post with the time it is where you are at that moment so I can compare it to my time to see when they will start?

Cannabeizen · Joined: 06 Jan 2009 Posts: 44

Thank you so much for doing this. I look foward to playing!

Carbon · Joined: 21 Nov 2005 Posts: 6

Yaays!

Az-cz · Joined: 18 Dec 2006 Posts: 56

Still looking for comments and suggestions about the format.